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[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

Is it really impossible to change menu fonts? I know from Stealthsnake's color theme tutorial that you can change the font color through hex editing MainMenu.const. I tried editing MainMenu.apt and changed both references of Albertus MT to the new font name, but I just get a game.dat crash when the main menu is supposed to come up.

BTW, I don't know how well known this is, but you CAN change the font of the in-game notification box through INI editing. (The little box that pops up when heroes arrive and die.)

[lycan]

i dunno but heres a stargate font http://www.dafont.com/stargate.font

[Elrond99]

it is possible, if seen a mod doing this

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

What mod?

[Turin Turumbar]

The Eldar Mod
Here are some screens of the new font

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

Awesome. Anyone know how they did it?

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

*bump*

[lycan]

hmm download the mod as see how they put the new mod in.

i have seen a ini\font thing somewhere.

data\ini\fontsubstitution.ini

data\ini\fontsettings.ini

I don't have the faintest idea what the "add file" thing would be though :(

Edited by elvenfury, 06 December 2007 - 08:34 PM.

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

It's not a simple INI edit, I've already tried that. That is the way to change the notification box font, though.

[lycan]

download the mod and look then

[Turin Turumbar]

The Eldar Mod is not released yet

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

*bump*

Absolutely no one knows?

[GeneralAdmission]

Changing menu fonts is possible via the fontsubstitution.ini file. I recently needed to do this for my Triplehead mod, which had the menus looking like this:



I added the following to the bottom of fontsubstitution.ini:

FontSubstitution "Albertus MT"
	Size 8 = 8 "Albertus MT"
	Size 10 = 10 "Albertus MT"
	Size 12 = 12 "Albertus MT"
	Size 14 = 14 "Albertus MT"
	Size 16 = 16 "Albertus MT"
	Size 18 = 18 "Albertus MT"
	Size 20 = 20 "Albertus MT"
End

Albertus MT is the default font, which I did not want to change. I just needed to restrict the font to a maximum point size. Using the code above, any engine call to a point size greater than Albertus 20 would be replaced with Albertus 20, and all the other point sizes would be returned with minimal interpolation. The result:



Of course the font can be replaced as well. Here are 2 shots of Albertus replaced with Hebrew:





I hope this helps.

GeneralAdmission

[Lord of the Rings Junkie]

THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was looking for.

[druchii22]

Wahoo, great work! Just a question, how could I use a police that isn't originality in PC (as Ringbearer)?

[Lurtzy]

I added this at the bottom of the codes

FontSubstitution "Albertus MT"
	Size 8 = 8 "Ringbearer"
	Size 10 = 10 "Ringbearer"
	Size 12 = 12 "Ringbearer"
	Size 14 = 14 "Ringbearer"
	Size 16 = 16 "Ringbearer"
	Size 18 = 18 "Ringbearer"
	Size 20 = 20 "Ringbearer"
End

And it looked like this!

Amazing! Thanks, GeneralAdmission!

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Edited by Lurtz101, 27 September 2008 - 08:09 PM.

[Rob38]

This would be a nice addition to the article section of the T3A site if you're interested in writing one, GeneralAdmission.

[TheWickedOne]

This is really helpful, you should really write about it as an article GeneralAdmission.

[Lauri]

I guess that for computers that doesn't have that font, wouldn't see the font...
However, if it would go to a "default" font, or not show up very readable at all, I do not know

would probably be best to have the font included in the mod's installer
Or zip file atleast